Books: Why So Hot?

Indiana University (peacetime enrolment : 7,000) is the alma mater of
both Paul McNutt and Wendell Willkie. Like other universities, it
occasionally invites various bigwigs to give lectures under its
auspices. Last year, the Will Patten Foundation lecturer was Bernard
DeVoto, onetime professor, onetime editor of The Saturday Review of
Literature, who looks like a bumblebee and writes like an angry hornet.

The Literary Fallacy consists of five lectures given by DeVoto.
Purportedly a re-examination of the literary '20s, most of it is given
over to a vehement...